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Outbreak waiting to happen

Friday, February 19th, 2021

Unite warns of quarantine hotels outbreak risk and reiterates calls for union consultation and better health and safety provisions

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 ‘Just at the right time’

Wednesday, February 10th, 2021

Unite has today (February 10) launched the learning hub@heathrow to assist its members employed at Heathrow and the local community to develop their skills, to ...

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‘I’ve forgotten what it’s like to just be free’

Friday, February 5th, 2021

“I’m sad today. I have too much work. It stacks up so quickly and I don’t have the same support I’d have in school. I get easily overwhelmed and I got a consequ...

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'Be the light in the darkness'

Wednesday, January 27th, 2021

Unite observes Holocaust Memorial Day and urges everyone to ‘never forget’

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'We refuse to be kicked again'

Thursday, January 21st, 2021

BA cargo workers speak out ahead of latest ‘fire and rehire’ strike

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NHS mental health crisis

Tuesday, January 19th, 2021

Unite rep and clinical psychologist Dr Kathryn Lloyd-Williams explores mental health impact of Covid-19 on NHS teams

6 min

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'Beacon of hope'

Thursday, January 14th, 2021

Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick workers rejoice in 'watershed moment' after their campaign pays off and historic site is saved

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‘It’s your voice we want to hear’

Monday, January 4th, 2021

Your union needs you! Your history is our history and to this end, Unite Education together with the Marx Memorial Library are putting together thoughts, feelin...

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'A fight for our lives'

Thursday, December 17th, 2020

Unite member and award-winning campaigner Hilda Palmer tells UniteLIVE about her decades-long fight for safer workplaces

10 min

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'Enough is enough'

Monday, December 14th, 2020

Heathrow strike gains momentum as Unite stages car rally

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It shouldn’t happen to a vet

Thursday, December 10th, 2020

When you think about veterinary surgeries it most likely conjures up images similar to James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small. Of a friendly and harmonio...

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'Do the decent thing'

Wednesday, December 9th, 2020

Chancellor faces renewed pressure to keep Universal Credit increase as new poll shows widespread support for the uplift

7 min

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'We really don't know how we survived'

Friday, November 27th, 2020

At the height of the pandemic at Whittington Hospital, photographer Slater King unearths stories of grief, trauma and triumph

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‘Rights and fights that can and must be won’

Thursday, November 19th, 2020

It’s night time in Wroclaw, south west Poland. It’s dark. The streets are filled with people in face masks holding placards and chanting ‘I think, I feel, I dec...

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A Phoenix for Christmas Dinner?

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020

“We’ve been working against holiday hunger for three and a half years now as a trade union with Unite Community and industrial members. I believe trade unions s...

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'The only way we will get through this is if we help each other'

Friday, November 13th, 2020

Unite rep Ethnie Abbasali explains why she's got involved with Unite's Christmas Appeal - and why everyone should take part too

7 min

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‘Bringing both sides of the community together’

Friday, November 6th, 2020

Covid is a cruel virus scarring us mentally as well as physically – raising anxiety, fears. Keeping families apart, making those happily living alone, lonely. B...

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'We'll be fighting tooth and nail for our members'

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Unite vows to fight to redeploy all members after Sainsbury’s announces 3,500 job cuts

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